Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Dunphey, D. 1835 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

D. DUNPHEY, a blacksmith of Woodland, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1835, the
son of A. Spencer and Eliza (Wing) Dunphey. His father, a native of New York
State and a millright by trade, died in Cook County, Illinois; and the mother,
who was born in Canada in 1811, died in Illinois. When Mr. Dunphey was but two
years of age the family removed to Cook County, Illinois, and subsequently to Jo
Daviess County, same State. April 13, 1852, he came overland with ox teams to
California, and for five years was employed at Sacramento in the trade of
blacksmithing. He then went to Cottonwood, now Madison, where he worked at his
trade for seven years, and then he settled in Woodland, where for twelve years
he has been conducting a prosperous business. He worked for Mr. Knox three years
and has now resumed business for himself in Woodland. He is a man well known
throughout the county and has many friends. He has a neat little home on Third
street.

  June 2, 1860, in Cottonwood, Yolo County, Mr. Dunphey married Lydia Willard,
the daughter of A. H. and Mary A. Willard. Her father was born in 1812 in St.
Louis, Missouri, and her mother in 1823 in Vandalia, Illinois; they had seven
sons and seven daughters. Mr. Dunphey has eight children, the following being
their names and ages: Spencer, twenty-nine years; Charles, deceased at the age
of fifteen years; Lydia,- aged twenty-five, and now the wife of R. A. Patterson
of San Diego County; Eliza, twenty one; Dexter, twenty-three; Lizzie, died at
the age of eight years; Willard, sixteen; and Minerva, twelve.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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